Demographic changes strongly affect almost all politically relevant areas of municipal life. Even if demographic changes as meta-trends are nearly impossible to handle, local authorities cannot afford to remain inactive. Demographic ageing will have profound socio-economic impacts over the next two decade. The impact of demographic changes will differ from city to city and from region to region. But they influence nearly every sphere of life: labour markets, housing markets, social security systems, infrastructure, urban/spatial planning, education, budgets and finances. Experience with the impact of demographic change has engendered strategies to face these developments in a number of countries and municipalities.
This project seeks to develop an exchange of experience between cities facing an ageing population and help them develop an integrated approach to dealing with this issue. |
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